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Muslim group rejects new NYSC date for orientation due to Ramadan

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, have released a statement rejecting
the June 13th date fixed for the NYSC Batch A (Stream II) orientation
course, arguing that the Muslim graduates expected to participate in the
orientation will be fasting as the date clashes with their Ramadan
fasting. The group argues that it would be very strenuous for Muslims to
be fasting and also participate in the challenges task set for them
during their orientation camp. The statement reads in part

“It is illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional for NYSC to hold camp at a
time when its Muslim members will be deprived of their freedom of
worship and the liberty to practice their creed without fear. This
planned camp is exclusive, discriminatory and parochial. We do not want
to believe that the shift was deliberately planned to coincide with the
Ramadan season with a view to excluding prospective Muslim corpers.
MURIC is not trying to indulge Muslim youths. Fasting is no joke and it
certainly cannot be combined with the physical challenges which
characterize the NYSC camp.

Firstly, morning drills in NYSC camps are known to be rigorous and the
soldiers in charge will not take excuses. Dehydration sets in later in
the day particularly in the hotter regions of Nigeria.

Secondly, adequate sahuur (early morning meal taken approximately
between 4 am and 5.15 am) cannot be guaranteed in the NYSC camp. Neither
can the futuur (meal taken at sunset to break fast ) be timely as camp
schedules are bound to ignore and subsume this very important period.

Thirdly, attending orientation camp and partaking in the energy-sapping
activities on empty stomach is an indubitable invitation to health
crisis. NYSC may therefore be inviting Muslim corpers to step on
landmines in the planned orientation camp if it holds as presently
scheduled.

There is more to Ramadan than ordinary fasting. That is on the surface.
The whole month of Ramadan is a period of spiritual dedication. There
are so many other spiritual exercises in which Muslims engage, the
tafsiir (exegesis of the Qur’an) session, the taraawih (late evening
supererogatory prayers) and nawaafil (night supererogatory prayers).
Only the deep can call to the deep. All these cannot be possible in the
NYSC camp.”the statement read

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